From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V11 #97 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Saturday, September 2 2006 Volume 11 : Number 097 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: More reasons why cancer needs to be stopped. ["Steve O'Hearn" Subject: RE: More reasons why cancer needs to be stopped. Phil - I agree with you. Two examples from my own life: - I had a great-aunt who I visited at Walter Reed Army Hospital in the late 1970's when I was a teenager. She was diagnosed with "terminal cancer" and given two months to live. Within three months her cancer "disappeared" and she lived fifteen years more. - I have a very close friend who was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease and given two years to live. That was in the early 1990's. I had dinner with him last night. He just got back from Florida where he was cutting timber on his father's land and is preparing to go work a contract in Tennessee. He's fine. So - just goes to show you, you never know. - - Steve - -----Original Message----- From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org] On Behalf Of PParm16424@aol.com Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:36 PM To: basia@smoe.org Subject: Re: More reasons why cancer needs to be stopped. Leslie, I realize the gravity of what you are feeling, but at the risk of nay-sayers, I believe it is wise not to give over-the-top credence to what the doctors are saying. What they are saying is merely a guess, an educated one, but a guess nonetheless. Words are powerful, much more powerful than we realize. ("Death and life are in the power of the tongue" Proverbs 18:21) If I were in your mother's situation, I would greatly appreciate those whose words and actions supported life and living, standing with me, not against me, regardless of the outcome. Doctors are often wrong (God bless 'em anyway), so it is needful to not place all our belief in every word they speak. I have witness their "wrongness" personally many times, as have others, I am sure. I just know that I would want people who were "rooting" for my healing, instead of closing the coffin here and now. Let's keep praying and believing for good to happen, perhaps even a miracle. (Who knows? Could happen.) I do hope this isn't out of line. I guess the pastor in me jumps out at times. I apologize if it is. Phil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 22:40:42 EDT From: Somegirl99@aol.com Subject: Re: More reasons why cancer needs to be stopped. I just found out today- cancer came back to my mom, and they can't help her Sorry to hear about that. Cancer is such an ugly disease and I wish more time, effort and money went into finding a cure for it. Not that there's not plenty now, just we need more...more money available, more studies to be funded, more bright kids graduating into the medical/science areas with a desire to chase after something until they get it. Cancer's the number 1 killer in my family. My mother's whole family died from it. My mother died from it, then my sister, and then that sister's 15yo kid had it (her's was throat cancer and they said it's a "good" kind to have and she's been fine about 4 years... the only one to survive it in my family). Then there's also the assorted married-in family members that have died from it. And here I sit smoking a cigarette as I write this. Some of us just ain't too bright, I guess. I just want to say 2 things about it: If she decides to have her arm amputated (what a thing to decide), she'll adjust and she'll be fine with it. A co-worker, a close friend, and my own father have all had a leg cut off and they've all done just fine with it. You talk about how awesome she is, missing an arm doesn't seem like something that would stop her from living life. I'm glad you're going home to see her. If - heaven forbid - she does die, you'll know you've done the right thing by spending time with her. Doesn't matter that it's hard on you, because it's all about her right now. I knew my mother was dying and I put off going to see her (how do you tell someone goodbye?) and when I finally got a plane ticket out there, she died a week before I was to go visit... one of the two things I regret in life. Hang in there kiddo. Jacki ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V11 #97 ***************************